Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, policy counsel at the American Immigration Council, described the Department of Homeland Security's proposal as "the death of asylum."Bill Frelick, HRW director of refugee and migrant rights division, raised the organization's objections to the proposed changes in a letter to Lauren Alder Reid, assistant director in the office of policy for DHS's executive office for immigration review, the same day the document was published.Frelick noted that the changes that would "eviscerate" the asylum system were built upon three years of the Trump administration's executive orders, proclamations, and regulations that have undermined refugee protections.The protections "that have been enshrined in international law since the.